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Playing in the space of ideas, insights, & action

Let's imagine the future of your business - then make it  happen

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“Because the most difficult part about making something, also the best,



Is existing in the middle,

Sustaining an act of radical imagination…”

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Hearts, Minds, & Machines

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Our Leaders

  • John Baxa

  • Agnish Chakravarti

  • Viet Do

  • Susanna Hamilton

  • Katelin Jones

  • Kristen Nozell Bornstein

  • Gabe Plener

  • Chris Varner

Ask John about...

Why the median age for South Park has always been 22

How ideas can be said without words

Gamification of everyday life and culture

Ask Agnish about...

Why do people actually prefer Hunts to Heinz

Why starting an insights project without a strategic framework is a bad idea

Tween and teen insights - based on a deep ethnography with an N=2

Ask Viet about...

Why startups should invest more in upfront product research

Conducting overnight, political polling for fortune 100 companies

The benefits of working from the top of a ski mountain

Ask Susanna about...

Testing prototypes for a new motor oil concept at a Jiffy Lube in Queens 

Conducting qual-at-scale research for creative concept testing

Ask Katelin about...

Going door-to-door in Utqiagvik, Alaska for the Native Village of Barrow’s tribal Census

Minimizing cultural bias and language barriers in survey design

Ask Kristen about...

AI, AR, VR and other emerging technologies

How tech products impact daily life—and how daily life can inform tech products

The dos and don'ts of brand and product naming

Ask Gabe about...

People, their idiosyncrasies, and how flawed we are as decision makers

Researching software piracy in Russia

How comedy and insights are deeply connected

Ask Chris about...

Conducting global segmentations for the biggest companies in the world

Defining and measuring the way cloud providers measure value realization

What defines a deviled egg

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